Never Mind The Genetics

Author : Mel Thorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692234381

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Never Mind the Genetics by Mel Thorn Pdf

Since breaking up with his high school girlfriend seventeen years ago, Kevin had no idea that he had left something precious behind with her. Now at age thirty-five, his success has brought him everything in life that he might need-- all except companionship. Since his birth seventeen years ago, Andrew and his mother haven't had a very peaceful relationship. Born into a family that couldn't afford him, and haunted him with threats of violence, he hoped and wished for a better life-- a life with the father he had never met. After years of bickering and bitterness, Andrew's mother takes him not only to meet, but live with his long, lost parent. What Andrew expects is a cold shoulder, but what he gets instead is a warm welcome. Kevin's gentle demeanor and sweet words are all it takes for Andrew to understand the true meaning of what it is to be loved, but something else-- something bright and unexpected-- blossoms from their growing friendship: a very different kind of love.

Author : Luke O'Neill
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780717186419

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Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here's the Science by Luke O'Neill Pdf

In this fascinating and thought-provoking book, Ireland's favourite scientist Professor Luke O'Neill grapples with life's biggest questions and tells us what science has to say about them: DO WE HAVE CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES? CAN WE ESCAPE WORKING IN BULLSH*T JOBS? MUST WE VACCINATE? ARE MEN'S AND WOMEN'S BRAINS DIFFERENT? WILL WE DESTROY THE PLANET? As he covers topics such as global pandemics, addiction and euthanasia, Luke's trademark easy wit and clever pop-culture references deconstruct the science to make complex questions accessible. Arriving at science's definitive answers to some of the most controversial issues human beings have to contend with, Never Mind the B#ll*cks, Here's the Science is a celebration of science and hard facts in a time of fake news and sometimes unhelpful groupthink.

Author : Bob Johnstone
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780595288427

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Never Mind the Laptops by Bob Johnstone Pdf

"What we all hope for our children's education is undiminished curiosity and creativeness, and solid practical preparation for adult work. Today, there's no doubt that easy access to computers is vital for students. Bob Johnstone has brilliantly and passionately told the story of the worldwide struggle to make today's equivalent of the pencil accessible to all students." -Victor K. McElheny, author of "Watson and DNA" If every kid had a laptop computer, what would difference would it make to their learning? And to their prospects? Today, these are questions that all parents, teachers, school administrators, and politicians must ask themselves. Bob Johnstone provides a definitive answer to the conundrum of computers in the classroom. His conclusion: we owe it to our kids to educate them in the medium of their time. In this book he tells the extraordinary story of the world's first laptop school. How daring educators at an independent girls' school in Melbourne, Australia, empowered their students by making laptops mandatory. And how they solved all the obstacles to laptop learning, including teacher training. Their example spread to thousands of other schools worldwide. Especially in America, where it inspired the largest educational technology initiative in US history-the State of Maine issuing laptops to every seventh-grader in its public school system. This lively, intriguing, anecdote-rich account is based on hundreds of interviews. In it, you'll meet the visionary leaders, inspirational principals, heroic teachers, and their endlessly-surprising students who showed what computers in the classroom are really for.

Author : Mark Henderson
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781623651848

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50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Mark Henderson Pdf

In recent years knowledge of our genetic code has changed our understanding of life on Earth. New genetic technologies are transforming the way we live and promise treatments for otherwise incurable diseases. But these advances are also generating controversy, particularly surrounding issues such as cloning and designer babies. In 50 Genetics Ideas, Mark Henderson distills the central ideas of genetics in a series of clear and concise essays. Beginning with the theory of evolution, and covering such topics as the genome and how nature and nurture work together, he not only illuminates the role of genes in shaping our behaviour and sexuality, but also the very latest, cutting-edge developments in gene therapy and artificial life. Accessible and informative, 50 Genetics Ideas is a timely introduction to this young and ground-breaking strand of science.

Author : Han Yu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137587794

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Communicating Genetics by Han Yu Pdf

This book examines the visual representations used in the popular communication of genetics. Drawing upon public science communication theories, information design theories, and social semiotics, the book offers both in-depth analyses and high-level synthesis of how genetics is visualized for the U.S. public from the early 20th century to the present. Individual chapters focus on six visual genres: photographs, micrographs, illustrations, genetic code images, quantitative graphs, and molecular structure images. Han Yu challenges readers to consider the significance of these images we often take for granted, including their historical contexts, scientific backstories, information richness, stylistic choices, economic motivations, and social implications. In doing so, the book reveals the complex cognitive, affective, and social-cultural factors that both shape and are shaped by these images. The book will be particularly useful to scholars of public science communication and visual communication, practitioners of science communication, and scientists from a range of related life science disciplines.

Author : Barbara B. Biesecker,Kathryn F. Peters,Robert G. Resta
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190626426

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Advanced Genetic Counseling by Barbara B. Biesecker,Kathryn F. Peters,Robert G. Resta Pdf

A CRITICAL NEW APPROACH FOR LEARNING AND THRIVING IN A FIELD OF CHANGE The scope and responsibilities of today's genetic counselors exceed the reasonable capacity of any one educational resource. While the field's first-year curriculum may be relatively fixed, the landscape of what comes after that -- a dizzying mix of practice, ethics, research design, and professional competencies -- is increasingly broad. Advanced Genetic Counseling offers an overdue extension of the field's core curriculum. From navigating ethical dilemmas and potential conflicts of interest to confronting the biases and patterns of thought that can limit counselors' interactions with clients, it prepares readers to face the profession's most challenging aspects with confidence. Drawing on techniques from psychotherapy, social psychology, and health behavior, Advanced Genetic Counseling is an essential resource for trainees and mid-career professionals. It offers a roadmap not just for addressing client needs, but for the future of genetic counseling education.

Author : Louise Bernier
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781849806442

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Justice in Genetics by Louise Bernier Pdf

Providing new insight into the ideas surrounding one of the longest running and hotly debated governmental issues – the global access to healthcare challenge – Louise Bernier develops an original theoretical framework that builds upon cosmopolitan liberal theory. This groundbreaking analysis offers a useful justification for engaging in a global and more equitable redistribution of health-related resources. The author examines if and how this theory of distribution translates into positive law and analyzes the barriers to legal compliance and global distributive justice in health. Other topics analyzed in this book include: intellectual property and international human rights, and the extent to which the philosophy and structure of each of these normative systems furthers the goal of distributing benefits equitably and globally; the use of strong and original normative landmarks to justify relying on a cosmopolitan approach to global justice based on health needs; and the social, political, economic and legal obstacles and opportunities resulting from the commercialization of the quickly evolving field of genetics. Ultimately, the book exemplifies the groundwork needed to initiate policy discussions and to eventually undertake concrete changes to achieve international redistribution of the resources emerging from genetics. As such, it will be of great value to students and scholars interested in health, law, human rights and intellectual property.

Author : Susan Bouregy,Elena L. Grigorenko,Stephen R. Latham,Mei Tan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107118713

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Genetics, Ethics and Education by Susan Bouregy,Elena L. Grigorenko,Stephen R. Latham,Mei Tan Pdf

A thorough cross-disciplinary exploration of the implications of genomics-influenced educational practice, for consideration by scientists, practitioners and laypersons alike.

Author : Roger Brownsword,William Cornish,Margaret Llewelyn
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-12-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781841130064

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Law and Human Genetics by Roger Brownsword,William Cornish,Margaret Llewelyn Pdf

This special issue of The Modern Law Review (v.61, no.5) overviews issues in the law's race to catch up with the revolution modern genetics has spawned. Ten articles from a British perspective address the legal ramifications for human rights, family law, criminal law, insurance, and patents of interventions in the human genome. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alexandra Plows
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134057863

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Debating Human Genetics by Alexandra Plows Pdf

Debating Human Genetics examines contemporary public debate on emerging developments in medical genetics, including cloning, gene therapy, gene patenting, biobanks, genetic testing and screening, and pharmacogenomics.

Author : Harry Harris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781475706208

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Advances in Human Genetics by Harry Harris Pdf

Author : Barton Childs
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801874424

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Genetic Medicine by Barton Childs Pdf

Childs thus provides a conceptual framework within which to teach and practice a humane medicine.

Author : Denise Como
Publisher : Dogwise Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Livestock
ISBN : 9781617810817

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A Breeder's Guide to Genetics by Denise Como Pdf

The study of genetics should be fun and, especially at the basic level, give one the confidence to delve deeper. This book offers basic information to the ""scientifically challenged"" and to beginners.

Author : Celia Deane-Drummond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521829437

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Genetics and Christian Ethics by Celia Deane-Drummond Pdf

In the immediate future we are likely to witness significant developments in human genetic science. It is therefore of critical importance that Christian ethics engages with the genetics debate, since it affects not just the way we perceive ourselves and the natural world, but also has wider implications for our society. This book considers ethical issues arising out of specific practices in human genetics, including genetic screening, gene patenting, gene therapy, genetic counselling as well as feminist concerns. Genetics and Christian Ethics argues for a particular theo-ethical approach that derives from a modified version of virtue ethics, drawing particularly on a Thomistic understanding of the virtues, especially prudence or practical wisdom and justice. The book demonstrates that a theological voice is highly relevant to contested ethical debates about genetics.

Author : George Turner
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473225107

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Genetic Soldier by George Turner Pdf

In a distant future, on an Earth populated by a scant few hundred thousand humans, the Atkins's Thomas performs without question the duties for which he was genetically bred. Called "Soldier" by one and all, he is a man of honor and ability, responsible for keeping the peace, for maintaining the status quo . . . and, most important, for guarding the great Book House on the hill - a vast repository of Last Culture knowledge presided over by Libary, Soldier's mentor, the most senior of the mystic Celibate scholars. Such is Thomas's life in the serene, semi-primitive world without nations and cities and governments - until the night the starship comes home. Having fled a dangerously overcrowded Earth years before the Collapse and the Twilight that followed, for seven centuries the men and women of the space-going vessel Search have been combing the galaxy for inhabitable planets - their aging processes dramatically slowed by the relative magic of light speed travel and cryogenic sleep. And now, lonely and frustrated, the weary voyagers have returned to a homeworld unrecognizably altered by the relentless tides of time - a world that does not want them back. A bitter welcome awaits the Searchers, as old Libary gathers Earth's Ordinands and Elders together to tap the terrifying power of the collective unconscious - in preparation of the Carnival night when they will sweep the helpless intruders back to their lonely sky in the name of Holy Science. And it is Soldier who stands in the middle, silent and alone - bound by duty to evict the homesick star-travelers . . . yet cursed by a preordained genetic destiny that has decreed their eviction will mean Soldier's death.